Lot 107
107
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED BIANCO NERO MARBLE POT-POURRI-VASE AND COVER, the waisted lid surmounted by a foliate-cast berried finial above a pierced beaded rim, the bulbous shaped body supported by three scrolled dolphins, on a concave-fronted triangular base centred by a foliate rosette, on spirally-fluted tapering feet, restorations

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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED BIANCO NERO MARBLE POT-POURRI-VASE AND COVER, the waisted lid surmounted by a foliate-cast berried finial above a pierced beaded rim, the bulbous shaped body supported by three scrolled dolphins, on a concave-fronted triangular base centred by a foliate rosette, on spirally-fluted tapering feet, restorations
11in. (28cm.) wide; 15½in. (39cm.) high

Lot Essay

This pot-pourri has very similar dolphin-supports to a pair of Louis XVI pot-pourris sold from the Réne Fribourg Collection, Sotheby's London, 18 October 1963, lot 740. Related dolphin-supports appear on a set of four candlesticks, supplied to Marie-Antoinette for the Cabinet de la Méridienne at Versailles in 1781 by Claude-Jean Pitoin (maître 1778), illustrated in P. Verlet, Les Bronzes Dorés Français du XVIIIe siècle, Paris, 1987, p. 38, fig. 29, of which two are now in the Wallace Collection, London (F.164)

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